Angel McCoughtry was one of 12 players to make the United States women's basketball national team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The Baltimore native certainly justified her selection by ranking second on the team in scoring with 10.9 points per game in...

The 2013 Colonial Athletic Association champion Towson University baseball team, which swept through the CAA Tournament in four straight games, will open play in the NCAA Tournament at the Chapel Hill Regional this weekend.
The Tigers (29-28) are...

Hall of Famer Ann Meyers Drysdale, one of the best female athletes in Southern California sports history, was honored on Saturday night at the Nike Extravaganza at Santa Ana Mater Dei.
Meyers received the Legends of the Court award.
She's a former...

UNCASVILLE – When Diana Taurasi accepted the offer from Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg to be compensated for sitting out the 2015 WNBA season, many nodded knowingly for two basic reasons.
Taurasi, 33, has been dropping hints for years that the...

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Geno Auriemma believes Diana Taurasi’s decision to sit out the 2015 WNBA season, on behalf of her Russian team who will pay her not to play, might not bode well for the WNBA. He believes it could begin a trend that might spread to include other physically tired top stars who make as much as 10 times more money overseas. But Auriemma did manage to spin a joke about Taurasi’s future with his USA senior national team, which will soon begin preparing for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. “...

PHOENIX (AP) - The toll of playing year-round basketball finally caught up with Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi.
Less than a year after leading the Mercury to their third WNBA title, Taurasi announced Tuesday that she will skip the WNBA season this summer after accepting a lucrative offer from her Russian club team to rest.
Taurasi said she will return for the 2016 WNBA season.
"The year-round nature of women's basketball takes its toll and the financial opportunity with my team in Russia would...

Diana Taurasi is getting paid not to play.
The Phoenix Mercury star announced Tuesday that she will skip the 2015 WNBA season this summer after accepting an offer from her Russian club to rest. Taurasi was slated to make just more than $108,000 this year playing for the Mercury — the third-highest amount on the team. She makes roughly $1.5 million playing in Russia.
"The year-round nature of women's basketball takes its toll and the financial opportunity with my team in Russia would have been...

HARTFORD — Soon enough, the time will come for Geno Auriemma and his UConn program to refocus on its annual goal of winning another national championship. For instance, there is a flight to Memphis on Friday, a game there Saturday, a practice in Storrs on Sunday and Monday's showdown with No. 1 South Carolina at Gampel Pavilion.
However, Tuesday was not the time to obsess and, to be clear, Auriemma's wiring is such that relaxation for him is as difficult as a bunker shot out of the deep sand...

The toll of playing year-round basketball finally caught up with Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi.
Less than a year after leading the Mercury to their third WNBA title, Taurasi announced Tuesday that she will skip the WNBA season this summer after accepting a lucrative offer from her Russian club team to rest.
Taurasi said she will return for the 2016 WNBA season.
"The year-round nature of women's basketball takes its toll and the financial opportunity with my team in Russia would have been...

This just in from the WNBA:
The reigning WNBA champion Phoenix Mercury, led by 2014 Finals MVP Diana Taurasi and 2014 Defensive Player of the Year Brittney Griner, will be among the 10 teams in action on June 5 when WNBA tips off its 2015 season. The Mercury will receive its championship rings before playing host to the San Antonio Stars at 10 p.m.
The defending Eastern Conference champion Chicago Sky and the Minnesota Lynx – led by 2014 WNBA MVP Maya Moore – will also be in action on the...

The Connecticut Sun, with the primary goal of getting back to the playoffs after missing them the past two seasons, will begin their 13th year at Mohegan Sun Arena against Washington on June 5 and will play three of their first four games at home. Former Sun coach Mike Thibault will bring the Mystics and former UConn players Stefanie Dolson and Bria Hartley to Connecticut for the opener.
The Sun will play 10 of 17 home games on the weekend, highlighted by the annual meetings with the champion Phoenix...